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The document outlines key themes and topics from the period of 1865 to 1898, focusing on American identity, technological changes, migration, politics, and cultural influences. It highlights significant events, figures, and concepts such as the settlement of the Far West, industrial growth, urbanization, and the rise of mass consumption. Additionally, it includes a list of important documents for analysis related to the Indian Wars, labor movements, and social changes during this era.

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Copy of Class Notes Period 6: 1865-1898

The document outlines key themes and topics from the period of 1865 to 1898, focusing on American identity, technological changes, migration, politics, and cultural influences. It highlights significant events, figures, and concepts such as the settlement of the Far West, industrial growth, urbanization, and the rise of mass consumption. Additionally, it includes a list of important documents for analysis related to the Indian Wars, labor movements, and social changes during this era.

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Period 6: 1865-1898

Period 6 Themes:
Themes: Complete each of the tasks below
American and National Identity:
1.​ Analyze the ways in which migration led to changes in American identity for immigrants,
working class people, and first-time urban residents.

Work, Exchange, and Technology:


1.​ Explain how changes in technology and transportation affected the settlement of the Far West.
2.​ Explain how changes in technology and the organizational structure of business affected the
economic and social development of the United States.
3.​ Explain the reasons for movement to a mass consumption society.
4.​ Explain the impact of increased leisure time on American society.

Migration and Settlement:


1.​ Analyze the sources of western population growth.
2.​ Analyze th ethnic makeup of the Far West and explain the consequences of that makeup.
3.​ Analyze the sources of urban population growth during the Gilded Age.
4.​ Describe the migration patterns during the Gilded Age.

Politics and Power:


1.​ Explain how the growth of the Far West influenced politics in the United States.
2.​ Explain the relationship between the federal government and big business during the Gilded
Age.
3.​ Explain the positive and negative aspects of machine politics and boss rule on urban residents.

America in the World:


1.​ Describe how the second industrial revolution changed American perceptions about
involvement in world affairs.

Geography and the Environment:


1.​ Analyze the impact of various aspects of western settlement on the environment of the region
and the environment’s impact on settlement.
2.​ Analyze the impact of urbanization and industrialization on the American environment.

Culture and Society:


1.​ Explain how the settlement of the Far West influenced cultural values and artistic expression in
the United States.
2.​ Explain how abuses in capitalism led to an outcry for social and philosophical change.
Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West
People, Places, and Events: How do each of these demonstrate or relate to
key concepts and historical themes from this chapter?

The Societies of the Far West (431-438)


Western Tribes: widespread Indian tribes that depended on the buffalo

Genizaros: Indians without tribes bottom level of Spanish caste system

Mulatto: person mixed with white and black ancestry

Mestizos: people of mixed race, Spanish and Indian

Plains Indians: Sioux,Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Pawnee, and Comanche. Some lived lives as farmers but
mainly buffalo

Buffalo, Economic Importance: flesh: main source of food, bones: knives, arrow tips, skin: materials
for clothes, tendons: bow string,manure: fuel

Taos Indian Rebellion:


Californios: descendants of Spanish and Mexican conquerors, culture of Mexico carried to California
Missions, Decline: built Mexican communities in California failed when the Mexican president pulled
power away from the church

Coolies: Chinese indentured servants whose conditions were similar to slavery

Transcontinental: rail line constructed between Nebraska and California. Connecting east and west
opening opportunities to the people

Chinatowns: often led by merchants, formed with the community of shared Chinese cultures, some
parts were similar to crime neighborhoods

Chinese Exclusion Act: set of laws such as immigration for the Chinese would be prevented for 10
years and prevented them from being citizens, 1882, 1892, 19,.’”

Homestead Act: The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who
occupied and improved the property. This policy led to the rapid development of the American West
after the Civil War; facing arid conditions in the West, however, many homesteaders found
themselves unable to live on their land.

The Changing Western Economy (438-443)


Mining:
Chisholm Trail:
Long Drive:

The Romance of the West (443-447)


Rocky Mountain School:
Cowboy:
Mark Twain:
Frederic Remington:
Frederick Jackson Turner:
Turner Thesis:
“Passing of the Frontier”:

The Dispersal of the Tribes (447-453)


Concentration Policy:
Buffalo, Destruction:
Sand Creek Massacre:
George A. Custer:
Little Bighorn:
Chief Joseph:
Geronimo:
Ghost Dance Movement:
Wounded Knee:
Dawes Severalty Act:

The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer (453-456)


Commercial Agriculture

Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy


People, Places, and Events: How do each of these demonstrate or relate to
key concepts and historical themes from this chapter?

Sources of Industrial Growth (459-467)


Henry Ford:
Wilbur and Orville Wright:
Frederick Winslow Taylor:
Scientific Management:
Limited Liability:
Andrew Carnegie:
J.P. Morgan:
Horizontal Integration:
Vertical Integration:
John D. Rockefeller:
Trusts:
Holding Companies:

Capitalism and Its Critics (467-475)


Social Darwinism:
Adam Smith:
Gospel of Wealth:
Horatio Alger:
Henry George:
Edward Bellamy:
Grotesque Luxury (Conspicuous Consumption):

Industrial Workers in the New Economy (475-483)


National Labor Union:
Molly Maguires:
Knights of Labor:
American Federation of Labor:
Samuel Gompers:
Haymarket Bombing:
Henry Clay Frick:
Homestead Strike:
Pullman Strike:
Eugene V. Debs:
John Peter Altgeld:
Women’s Trade Union League:

Chapter 18: The Age of the City


People, Places, and Events: How do each of these demonstrate or relate to
key concepts and historical themes from this chapter?

The Urbanization of America (487-494)


Assimilation:
Americanized:
Xenophobia:

The Urban Landscape (494-497)


“City Beautiful” Movement:
Tenements:
Jacob Riis:
Mass Transit:

Strains of Urban Life (497-500)


Alice Hamilton:
Boss Rule:
Tammany Hall:
William M. Tweed:

The Rise of Mass Consumption (500-502)


Department Stores:
National Consumers League:

Leisure in the Consumer Society (502-508)


Yiddish Theater:
Movies:
D.W. Griffith:
Newspaper Chains:
Yellow Journalism:

High Culture in the Age of the City (508-511)


Social Realism:
Stephen Crane:
Theodore Dreiser:
Upton Sinclair:
Kate Chopin:
Henry James:
Ashcan School:
Edward Hopper:
Armory Show:
Modernism:
Darwinism:
William James:
Women’s Colleges:

Documents: You need to be able to identify, describe, and analyze the


following documents.

Indian Wars: The Battle of Washita, 1868:


Official photograph from the “Golden Spike” Ceremony, 1869:
Horace Greeley: “Go West”, 1871:
The Grange Movement, 1875:
William Cullen Bryant opposes the protective tariff, 1876:
William T. Sherman on the western railroads, 1878:
San Francisco’s Chinatown, 1880:
The struggle for married women’s rights, circa 1880s:
Charles Guiteau’s reasons for assassinating President Garfield, 1882:
The Haymarket Affair, 1886:
Frederick Douglass on the disenfranchisement of black voters, 1888:
Building Carnegie Hall, 1889:
People’s Party Campaign poster, 1892:
Campaigning for the African American Vote in Georgia, 1894:
William Jennings Bryan and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, 1895:
Anti-corporate cartoons, ca. 1900:

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